A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

So where exactly did people go on holiday in ancient times? Archaeological finds, such as historical documents, coins and trade goods from different regions, have led academics to believe that ...

For many years now there has been a debate about whether the ancient peoples of the Nile Valley were 'black' or 'white'. Much Western scholarship, particularly in the early twentieth century ...

Analysis of ancient human and animal remains suggests that precolonial peoples in the Bolivian Amazon likely fed ducks more than 1,000 years ago, a study reports. The research, published in the ...

Volcanic eruptions were cataclysmic in centuries past, from the 43 B.C. eruption of a volcano in Alaska that caused failed ...